In 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered two college lectures that were expanded and published the following year as A Room of One's Own. Wondering why it is that men have always had the power while women have had nothing but children, Woolf imagines Shakespeare with a sister in every way his equal in genius and talent, but whose life, because of her gender, would have been radically different. Woolf posits that there will be female Shakespeares in the future, but only if they are provided with two essential freedoms: a fixed income and a room of one's own in which to write.